California is looking pretty good from a water perspective for 2026.
But that avalanche sucked. Not someone I knew, but a not-that-distant relative was one of the deceased. It's weird when things like that aren't so far removed from your personal life.
One of my partners and her family (incl. young kids) had to be evacuated from a power-less/heat-less cabin by snowmobile the other day. That's a pretty exciting way to end "ski week."